Caille Millner: 666 is still on the loose

The taxi driver for cab number 666 had his car blessed, as this Franciscan friar is doing. It didn’t work.

I read a great story about how San Francisco’s Taxicab Commission just voted to keep the number “666″ affixed to a cab. The interesting thing about this story is that it was the taxi driver himself who begged for the number to be changed, claiming that his cab was cursed and that he had suffered a string of disasters.

Why is the Taxicab Commission trying to make this guy’s life harder? It really wasn’t out of line for the driver to ask for a new medallion number — it’s not like he was asking for a new cab — especially if it would make him, and his customers, feel better. I’m sure the poor guy gets a lot of traffic from the loonies at the Church of Satan, but if I saw that cab number I’d be spooked. The Taxicab Commission claims that it would “open a can of worms” and everyone would ask to change his number — give me a break. They’re overestimating their own importance and denigrating the importance of a happy driver and unafraid customers. They need to get over themselves and offer the poor guy a new number.